Family & Children

Good Reasons for a Good Resolution

Isaiah 61:10

… God's chosen people are His children. All the rest of mankind are only His servants, and the servants must wait upon the children whether they like it …

Morning, August 30

Ps 27:14

… In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 17:7

… I know the children of God will join with me in praying it, and I trust that before we have done, some who never prayed before may make …

Shining Christians

Isaiah 60:1

… But the mercy ofthe LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children; to such as keep His Covenant …

Sanctified Sorrow

Isaiah 54:11

… Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child; for more are the children of …

Patience, Comfort and Hope From the Scriptures

Romans 15:4

… therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you." "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes …

The Comforter

John 14:26

… Like children, they would consider him as their Father; and to him every want, every groan, every sorrow, every agony, would at once be carried; and he, like …

Prayer Certified Of Success

Luke 11:9-10

… But still, like a child crying in the dark with painful longing for help from somewhere or other, it scarcely knows where, the soul in deep sorrow almost …

Mediation of Moses

Exodus 32:14

… And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. For Moses had said …

How to Please God

Hebrews 11:6

… a child stands up and says, "I find it hard work to believe my father—oh, dear, dear, dear—God save us from having such children as that …

The Dove'S Return To The Ark

Genesis 8:9

… a child of God will ever be satisfied with any object or person short of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is room for wife and children, there is …

The Snare of the Fowler

Psalm 91:3

… God knows that our backsliding will soon end in our destruction and he, by a sad providence, blasts our prospect, takes away our child from us, buries our …

A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace

Jeremiah 6:14

… be troubled, ye careless ones.” The work of the ministry is no child’s play; it is a labor which might fill an angel’s hands—did fill …

Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!

Hebrews 13:5

… I have thought of it, dreamed of it, and felt it in such feeble measure as a child of God can feel it, but how to describe it …

Prayer 22 — The Presence of God

… In effect, we would pray that no child may leave the schools unsaved. Oh! save the children, great Lover of the little ones. Thou who wouldst have them …

Psalm 13

Psalm 13

… Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget …

God's Tender Mercy

Luke 1:78

… For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD. After all, we who have the deepest sorrow have the …

Silver Sockets—Redemption the Foundation!

Exodus 30:11-16

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall …

Prayer for the Church

Daniel 9:17

… Therefore pray God to bless His Church for your dear children's sake. And, then, for God's sake, for Christ's sake, for the Holy Spirit's …

Binding Up Broken Hearts

Isaiah 61:1

… They never were, consciously, children of God, but they are now awakened to see their danger and their lost condition. I wish that all in this congregation who …

Sin Slain

Judges 4:22

… We have before us, in this chapter, a picture of the children of Israel attacked by a very wicked and powerful king—Jaban, the king of Canaan. It …

What Self Deserves

Ezekiel 36:31

… children. She would pray with us; when we read the Scriptures with her' she talked to us. Her words were very faithful, very tender, and her child could …

Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts

Psalm 94:19

… If it is adversity which is the Covenant spot and the choice mark of a favored child of God, then will I congratulate myself in being made to …

Our Lord's Humanity a Sweet Source of Comfort

Daniel 10:18

… The child of God, as he grows in Grace, becomes more lonely under certain aspects, just as the higher mountains have fewer familiarities, till Mont Blanc speaks to …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… Who are you that judges another man's servants? Wisdom is justified in all her children. Only children wrangle about incidental methods—men look at sublime results. Do …

Unanswered Prayer

Psalm 22:2

… No, we are children, but we are to remember that children have a limit as to how they are to speak to their father. Their love may come …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… When He sits as a Refiner of silver, believe me, it is no child's play to be in the crucible! The Lord took Israel to those waters …

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… It is mere child's play to pray to God, only a trifle to turn to God, and get a new heart. Yes, but when man begins to …

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… In reading the chapter, we saw how the Man-Child who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron was caught up unto God and to …

The Love of Our Espousals

Jeremiah 2:2

… But I willyetplead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children willIplead. Forpass over the Isles of Chittim and see; and send unto Kedar, and …

Joseph Attacked by the Archers

Genesis 49:23

… child’s mouth, with his hand upon the child’s hand, with his foot upon the child’s foot, so does “God put his mouth to his children …

Knowing and Doing

2 Corinthians 8:9

… of you have children and for then you would willingly sacrifice everything. Well, we do not doubt your love to your wife and your child, but let your …

A Vexed Soul Comforted

Job 27:2

… What were the troubles in your case? It may be that one child was taken away and then another—and yet a third. Or, perhaps, your infant was …

Confirming the Witness of Christ

1 Corinthians 1:6

… I have seen it just as clearly as if God had rent the heavens and put His hand out and said, "There, My child, is the mercy you …

Strength And Recovery

Zechariah 10:12

… Well used, it works to noblest results, but in the hands of one who is spiritually weak it is as dangerous as firearms in the grasp of children …

God Has Spoken!— Rejoice!

Psalm 108:7

… My Brother, you have been exceedingly grieved because your people have been like the children of Ephraim who "being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day …

'Nunc Dimittis'

Luke 2:29-30

… They saw the little innocent child that was brought there by its parents, but they saw nothing remarkable in him; perhaps, Simeon and Anna, alone of all those …

Religion—a Reality

Deuteronomy 32:47

… grand-children say their prayers as they are going to bed, pretty dears, when they are singing their evening hymn, I wish I was a child again; but …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… What great faith Manoah had! His wife was barren, yet when she was told by the Angel that she should bear a child, he believed it, although no …

'Even So, Father!'

Matthew 11:25

… of kings, His children; then heirs—heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus—a relationship which never can be dissolved! A child can never be anything …